Egypt to destroy torched building of Mubarak’s party

Ousted president's former HQ, burned down during the 2011 uprising, now the focus of Cairo real-estate battles

Former National Democratic Party (NDP) headquarters, which was torched during the 2011 uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

CAIRO — Egypt’s government on Wednesday ordered the army’s corps of engineers to demolish the headquarters of ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s now-defunct party, a towering structure on the Nile which was torched by protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his rule.

The government decided to demolish the National Democratic Party’s headquarters nearly a year ago, but the fate of the site — prime real-estate alongside the city’s central Tahrir Square — has been a source of contention.

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